Discover Beautiful Places While Exercising

Indoor Traveler is a crowdsourcing platform where people from all over the world record and submit videos of sites of unique beauty, to enjoy them while exercising at home. We call these films Travel Videos.

No matter where you live – in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, or North or South America – you can share with the rest of the world all beautiful places you love. And you can enjoy taking virtual travels to other parts of the world, thanks to the joint effort of people like you. Let’s record all the places that are worth seeing! Join our community now!

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Rating Criteria Indoor Traveler collects films from around the world made with a particular purpose: to provide an immersive experience of virtual travels while exercising on treadmills, elliptical cross-trainers or exercise bikes. We call such films “travel videos”. To be able to fully enjoy virtual travels, you will have to have the right equipment setup. For more details, read our post “Indoor Traveler Home Setup“. Once your setup is ready, all you have to do is choose a location from Indoor Traveler’s interactive map, and start your workout trip. “…to provide an immersive experience of virtual travels while exercising…” We’ve defined four rating criteria to assess how enjoyable a traveling experience our collected videos give. The total score of a given video will be calculated as a weighted average of all criteria. During the evaluation per criterion, penalty points will be applied when certain flaws are identified. Penalty points can be applied many times in the same criterion, e.g., (-1) x 5 for Silence in Sound criterion. 1. Scenery Extraordinary and beautiful scenery is probably the most important factor in choosing travel destinations. Here at Indoor Traveler, we want you to see beautiful places you’ve never seen before. We want […]

Indoor Traveler Home Setup In my last post, “How I Overcame Exercise Boredom”, I defined two rules to maximise the virtual travel experience: Provide the most immersive travel video experience, that won’t require too much cognitive effort (no lector, no subtitles, no maps, no other distractions), but will arouse positive emotions like curiosity, joy, awe, etc. Engage in simple and comfortable physical activity that will simulate walking (or cycling) moves, with a challenging fitness goal. Below, I describe how you can set up your own home environment to enjoy traveling indoors. Each time, you will come across a dilemma over which option to choose, just answer these two questions: “What will provide the most immersive travel experience?” and “What is the most comfortable way of doing it?” I encourage you to use these questions to test all of my suggestions. Let’s start with finding a machine that will allow you to move while staying in the same location. 1. Home exercise machine There are many types of home exercise equipment available on the market, but we are interested only in a few types, such as treadmills, elliptical cross trainers and stationary bikes. What these devices have in common is that […]

How I Overcame Exercise Boredom What is fun about doing push-ups or squats? How about weightlifting? These days, gyms are full of big machines, where people exercise in front of big mirrors and multi-channel TV screens. I tried them all, and I didn’t find any fun there. Only sweat and faces with an expression of pain. And yet, it is hard to ignore the benefits of physical activity, especially when we are constantly reminded of them by the media. Exercising sounds like something wise to do, but how can I reap the benefits of exercise without forcing myself to do something I don’t feel like doing? I know willpower is very precious and a very limited resource. I don’t want to deplete it even before I start my work. How about exercising after work? After many months of good intentions I learned that, like the other 80 percent of gym membership owners, after spending all day in meetings and intellectual work, I chose rest at home over a gym workout. At this time of the day, all my willpower is gone. So what can I do? I was lucky enough to find the answer where I didn’t expect it. It […]